Translation of "Befristeten arbeitsverhältnis" in English

It will also become possible to delegate these tasks to third parties, such as temporary employment agen­cies.

If you are presently employed, is your job permanent or temporary?

Young people, above all, inch their way from one fixed-term contract to the next.

During their studies students are temporarily employed by the Federal Labour Office.

In Belgium, the rules governing limited contracts were amended with effect from 1 July 1994.

As matters stand, how ever, the varying provisions of national legislation are frequently such as to encourage employers to keep workers in the position of temporary employees.

As the Commission notes in its communication 'Youth on the move', young people are often trapped in a chain of temporary employment contracts that reduces their chances of moving on to more stable contracts and exacerbates their job insecurity.

Why has the share of people with involuntary fixed-term contracts and no long-term security reached over 6.5%?

However, the formality of prior notification may in no case be required in the cases referred to in Article 4, neither for workers with a temporary contract or employment relationship, nor for employees not covered by a collective agreement or by collective agreements relating to the employment relationship.

Given that the Committee has already taken a firm position on the question, this Opinion should concentrate on addressing some of the practical issues involved in the acquisition by part-time and temporary workers of an occupational pension right and its preservation and "transferability" EC-wide:

This means that employees on fixed-term contracts with a duration of less than nine months are not taken into account when assessing whether a company is large enough to be required to set-up workers' representative bodies. .

No provision is made for payment to employees with a limited contract of the wage supplement paid to workers with an unlimited contract.

Number of employees working voluntary and involuntary part-time as % of total number of employees and of those with voluntary and involuntary fixed-term contracts as % of total number of employees (source: LFS).

Young people often face job insecurity and can become trapped in a series of temporary contracts.

A higher proportion of women employees are on temporary contracts than men, but the gender difference is less pronounced than that found for parttime contracts, discussed below.

It should rather be seen as complementing efforts in this field by endeavouring to ensure that employment promotion via work-sharing, cuts in working time, restrictions on overtime working, etc., lead primarily to the creation of permanent jobs as opposed to insecure temporary jobs.

Construction companies account for 13% of all businesses in Spain; 61% of these employ under 50 people and 32% of these workers have a temporary contract.

Workers with a fixed-duration or temporary employment relationship are at greater risk from accidents at work and occupational diseases.

In October 2003,the Ministry of Finance, together with the State Employer’s Office,sent guidelines to state offices on the use offixed-term job contracts.According to these guidelines,a basic principlerelating to employment contracts should be that in jobs which bytheir nature are permanent,permanent job contracts should beused.State offices are required to suggest measures which wouldreduce the use offixed-term contracts by the end of April 2004.It isexpected that this process will transform thousands offixed-termcontracts in the state sector into permanent ones.

Worker motivation depends on fair remuneration structures both in the firm and in relation to other firms (international comparison exercise for Henkel management staff). Such factors as work content, information and communication, career progression and management are just as important - If not more so - than pay in terms of incentives.

It is also notable that these special measures increasingly tend to offer education/training in addition to access to permanent or temporary jobs.

This form of employment is particularly common in Spain, where it continues to expand so that one third of employees have fixedterm contracts (see data appendix).

We offer these services to all employees, regardless of whether they work part-time or full-time or are on a temporary contract.

This concerns e.g. the BVG obliga- tion, according to which staff employed at Iglu-Dorf GmbH for more than 3 months are subject to the BVG obligations in contrast to staff with limited employ-ment contracts with a term of up to 3 months (e.g. the building team).